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How to spell protection

Protection is spelled P-R-O-T-E-C-T-I-O-N. Protect plus -ION: keep the C and the T, pro-tec-tion.

What it means: A means of keeping safe from harm or danger.

In a sentence: The knight wore armor for protection. ▶

The part people get wrong

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Same family: protected, protective, protector, protectionism, protectionist. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Protection comes from Latin 'protegĕre,' meaning 'to cover in front' or 'to shield.' Over time, the word gained a criminal sense, referring to money paid to gangsters in exchange for being 'shielded' from the very violence they threatened.

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